Rockville, MD-- The Biophysical Society has announced the winners of its Education Committee Travel Awards to attend the Biophysical Society's 58th Annual Meeting at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, February 15-19, 2014. The recipients of this competitive award, all of whom are students and postdoctoral fellows, are selected based on scientific merit. Each awardee will be presenting their research during the meeting, will receive a travel grant, and will be recognized at a reception on Saturday, February 15.

The recipients of the 2014 Education Committee Travel Award are:

Ahmed Abdelfattah, University of Alberta, DEVELOPMENT OF A RED GENETICALLY-ENCODED VOLTAGE INDICATOR AND ITS USE WITH CHANNELRHODOPSIN FOR ALL-OPTICAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

Andrew Allan, University of Glasgow, CORRELATION BETWEEN VENTRICULAR REPOLARISATION PATTERNS AND T-WAVE GENERATION IN ISOLATED RABBIT HEARTS USING PANORAMIC IMAGING

Maiwenn Beaugrand, University of Quebec at Montreal, EXPRESSION AND PURIFICATION OF A FUNCTIONAL HERG PORE DOMAIN FOR BIOPHYSICAL AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES

Gaetano Bonifacio, University of Lausanne, COORDINATED MOVEMENTS DURING ASIC1A ACTIVITY

Mario Brameshuber, Vienna University of Technology, DIRECT IMAGING OF MOBILE NANODOMAINS IN THE LIVE CELL PLASMA MEMBRANE BY USING A TWO-COLOR PHOTOBLEACHING APPROACH

The Biophysical Society, founded in 1957, is a professional, scientific Society established to encourage development and dissemination of knowledge in biophysics. The Society promotes growth in this expanding field through its annual meeting, monthly journal, and committee and outreach activities. Its 9000 members are located throughout the U.S. and the world, where they teach and conduct research in colleges, universities, laboratories, government agencies, and industry. For more information on these awards, the Society, or the 2013 Annual Meeting, visit http://www.biophysics.org.

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